ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Jargon, Veranda, William Rathje
Document Summary
Please see the grading rubric posted under content on avenue. You seek permission to study them and to hang out with them. You have to tell people of any risks involved in participating in your research. Tell them that they"re able to resign at any time. If they do resign you have to shred all of the research on them, you can"t use it. Consent can be in written form or. Culture shock = disillusionment / home sickness in spite of the fact that anthropologists are trained in cultural relativism. Eg. different conceptions of food, time, space. Quantitative data: statistics generated from surveys, etc. Useful when you"re trying to understand broad data in a culture i. e unemployment rates. Not going to tell you peoples" specific: what might be some problems with relying exclusively on surveys and statistics? experiences from unemployment. From an anthropologist perspective, you won"t really get personal stories with quantitative data.